Does Newberry have a city income tax?

Good news for your paycheck: there’s no local income tax to worry about in Luce County. Michigan is one of the few states that lets cities charge a local income tax on top of the state’s, but only about two dozen Michigan cities actually do it — and the key word is cities. Newberry, the county seat, is a village, not a city, so it can’t levy one. And since Newberry is the only incorporated community in the whole county, there’s nowhere in Luce County that charges a local income tax at all.

There’s none anywhere else in the Upper Peninsula, either. The nearest city with a local income tax is Grayling, well over a hundred miles south, on the other side of the Mackinac Bridge in the Lower Peninsula. Unless you commute all the way down there for work, it won’t touch your earnings.

So whether you settle in Newberry or out in one of the townships, your wages stay yours as far as any city income tax is concerned — one less thing to budget for when you’re figuring out the cost of living up here.